“I just haven’t really internalized that this is here and this is what’s happening,” she said.
Her family owned the 2-acre plot during a time when many Black families in the region were still sharecropping. After her parents died, Polk was determined to hold on to it. She and her husband planned to renovate the place as a retirement home or for one for their children.
Then the noise came. And the wildlife left, she said.
Polk had the electric service shut off and moved their furniture out. She’s not sure when they’ll be back.
